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As long as the cabling between the PI and the dish is RG6, you're golden. For long runs, the RG6 needs to be solid copper as opposed to copper coated steel. Even at that, many installers still use CCS cable and it works.

Uh, can you show me where DirecTV says installers can use ccs for rg6 instead of solid core copper?

while I hate to agree with that Dish Network dog, many, many jobs are done with copper clad wire for all the inside wiring. Example brand new homes built today are all wired with all copper clad wiring, an outlet in each room all being fed down to the electric meter. alot of basements are finished. people dont want holes drilled and black wires run all over the outside of their brand new house. And people dont want to spend custom money rewiring their entire house after the drywall is up. Most techs I know will rewire the easy stuff with solid copper. The line from the dish to the splitter solid copper. But rewiring entire prewired houses all over again? I dont know any techs that do that. It is what it is.

while I hate to agree with that Dish Network dog, many, many jobs are done with copper clad wire for all the inside wiring. Example brand new homes built today are all wired with all copper clad wiring, an outlet in each room all being fed down to the electric meter. alot of basements are finished. people dont want holes drilled and black wires run all over the outside of their brand new house. And people dont want to spend custom money rewiring their entire house after the drywall is up. Most techs I know will rewire the easy stuff with solid copper. The line from the dish to the splitter solid copper. But rewiring entire prewired houses all over again? I dont know any techs that do that. It is what it is.

Any wiring done by a DirecTV tech will be with solid copper core. Heck, they have their name on their coax these days that the techs get for their trucks, so there is not even a debate about it. 3rd party companies should be the same, it's the private installer you might run into trouble with.

As for the wiring, of course that is correct. Here is the kicker to all this though, unless the runs are long, it really shouldn't matter. Only in long runs should it cause any real harm, for several reasons. When DirecTV designed swim, one of the benefits is that it doesn't use the same bandwidth as non swim, and was meant to be able to run over existing house wiring, and often times even work with rg59. They'd rather not ever do that, but it can be done, and does work for shorter distances. I know, I have tried it. They just don't want their techs doing that because often times there are other issues that cause bigger problems with existing wiring.

while I hate to agree with that Dish Network dog, many, many jobs are done with copper clad wire for all the inside wiring. Example brand new homes built today are all wired with all copper clad wiring, an outlet in each room all being fed down to the electric meter. alot of basements are finished. people dont want holes drilled and black wires run all over the outside of their brand new house. And people dont want to spend custom money rewiring their entire house after the drywall is up. Most techs I know will rewire the easy stuff with solid copper. The line from the dish to the splitter solid copper. But rewiring entire prewired houses all over again? I dont know any techs that do that. It is what it is.

I prewire houses, and this is not true. All of the installers in my area use quad shield solid copper RG6, but especially us because we also do D* installs.

I prewire houses, and this is not true. All of the installers in my area use quad shield solid copper RG6, but especially us because we also do D* installs.

That's great in your area, but that's not the case everywhere. Heck, I have seen new homes where they don't even put jacks in places that make sense because it would have taken another 20 feet of coax! Some builders in my area seem to think, just one plug in a room, and then let the people run coax along the baseboard to get it where it needs to go, who cares if its all the way to the other side of the room? Ugh! Sorry, my pet peeve for per wiring houses. Some do great,others, not so much.

DIRECTV bought a lot of the Mastec shops and they still seem to be employing a lot of CCS. I'm not sure how that reconciles with what you're insisting.

Thats pretty weird, i dont know where you get your info from. Techs that work for Directv O&O , Mastec, and Directsat are all provided their materials for them. They are all provided only solid copper wire. So if one of those 3 come to your house and runs a wire for you it would be solid copper. I highly doubt any of them would go buy their own copper clad wire. Now any of these might choose to use some prewired copper clad wire as I explained earlier.

But hey If you know firsthand of a Mastec shop that their techs are being given copper clad wire to use instead of solid copper, then post the address of that shop . we are all curious as to who is doing this

Having worked with the DTV order system, unless things have changed in the last 21months, all DTV direct tv employees, Mastec and one or two other BIG contractor recieve there materials thru the DTV supply chain, which, 1) supplies ONLY scc cable, and 2) 99.8% of these materials come from Perferct10.

The ONLY installers that do not normally have all scc is your local store front dealer/installer.